Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?

[Guest Spendius]

Hello,

 

I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the

following in case of hard disk crash:

1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and

a USB driver,

2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed

hard drive,

3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new

internal hard disk.

 

To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install

it on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to

access an external USB disk containing my backups...

 

I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the

filesystems

(NTFS...) existing on them...

 

Are there free programs to do that ?

 

In advance, thanks very much.

Regards,

Spendius

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?

 

Hello Spendius,

 

http://www.acronis.com

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Hello,

>

> I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the

> following in case of hard disk crash:

> 1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and

> a USB driver,

> 2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed

> hard drive,

> 3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new

> internal hard disk.

> To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install it

> on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to

> access an external USB disk containing my backups...

>

> I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the

> filesystems

> (NTFS...) existing on them...

> Are there free programs to do that ?

>

> In advance, thanks very much.

> Regards,

> Spendius

[Guest Robbie Hatley]

Re: Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?

 

 

"Spendius" wrote:

> I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the

> following in case of hard disk crash:

> 1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and

> a USB driver,

> 2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed

> hard drive,

> 3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new

> internal hard disk.

>

> To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install

> it on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to

> access an external USB disk containing my backups...

>

> I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the

> filesystems

> (NTFS...) existing on them...

>

> Are there free programs to do that ?

 

Several.

 

1. Windows Explorer. Drag and drop files and folders from main

disk to backup periodically. A bit clumsy and not automatic,

but requires no added software, and is free (part of Win2K).

2. Buy a Maxtor external USB or firewire hard disk. It comes

with it's own partition mirroring software. Sort of like

RAID in some ways.

3. Symantec's "Norton Ghost". Not free, but at $70, it won't

break your bank account either. And if you shop around, you

can get it as part of a package deal even cheaper. To use

it, you set aside a partition(s) on your backup disk big enough

to mirror the partition(s) you want to ghost, and Ghost keeps

those backup partitions identical with your main partitions.

So if your main HD crashes, everything is backed up.

4. I see another respondant has mentioned "Acronis". I see from

their website that their home backup product is only $50, so

that might be a better deal for you.

5. Or drop by your computer store and ask what backup software

they've got. Or just browse the shelves. Or read the ads in

a copy of a PC World magazine (read it for free at your local

library).

 

--

Cheers,

Robbie Hatley

lonewolf aatt well dott com

www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant

[Guest Stubby]

Re: Best procedure/soft for backup of entire drive ?

 

Acronis TRUE IMAGE is a fine, easy to use program. They used to give away

an old version for people to try out.

Try http://www.acronis.com .

 

SanDisk gives away CRUZER on its 4GB flash memories. I use that for daily

backups of changed files.

 

Partition Manager provides a full partition backup/restore capability.

 

"Robbie Hatley" <lonewolf@well.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Spendius" wrote:

>

> > I'm looking for a backup software that would enable me to do the

> > following in case of hard disk crash:

> > 1/ boot from a CD containing the backup/restore program and

> > a USB driver,

> > 2/ plug an external USB disk containing the image of my crashed

> > hard drive,

> > 3/ then find this image from my CD, and restore it to a brand new

> > internal hard disk.

> >

> > To sum up: I'm looking for a small software, allowing me to install

> > it on a CD to boot from, on which I'll put a USB driver as well, to

> > access an external USB disk containing my backups...

> >

> > I'd like to be able to backup an entire drive, whatever the

> > filesystems

> > (NTFS...) existing on them...

> >

> > Are there free programs to do that ?

>

> Several.

>

> 1. Windows Explorer. Drag and drop files and folders from main

> disk to backup periodically. A bit clumsy and not automatic,

> but requires no added software, and is free (part of Win2K).

> 2. Buy a Maxtor external USB or firewire hard disk. It comes

> with it's own partition mirroring software. Sort of like

> RAID in some ways.

> 3. Symantec's "Norton Ghost". Not free, but at $70, it won't

> break your bank account either. And if you shop around, you

> can get it as part of a package deal even cheaper. To use

> it, you set aside a partition(s) on your backup disk big enough

> to mirror the partition(s) you want to ghost, and Ghost keeps

> those backup partitions identical with your main partitions.

> So if your main HD crashes, everything is backed up.

> 4. I see another respondant has mentioned "Acronis". I see from

> their website that their home backup product is only $50, so

> that might be a better deal for you.

> 5. Or drop by your computer store and ask what backup software

> they've got. Or just browse the shelves. Or read the ads in

> a copy of a PC World magazine (read it for free at your local

> library).

>

> --

> Cheers,

> Robbie Hatley

> lonewolf aatt well dott com

> www dott well dott com slant user slant lonewolf slant

>

>